Wednesday, 7 January 2015

New Toys

Looks like there has been a load of new stuff for Visual Studio and .NET Recently. So I thought I would have a play. Link.Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 PreviewDownload and installation pretty standard, havent noticed anything exceptionally different, lambda debugging looks like it will be pretty cool. Will spend a bit more time playing with the features after I have played with C#6.List of featuresRoslyn (The new C# compiler platform)Pretty easy to install in to a project just put open a console and type:Install-Package Microsoft.CodeAnalysis -PreRoslyn Website

R#New platform installer for 9.1 picked up vs2015 and installed, works fine. Looks like some of the c# 6 support is already added as it suggests adding the ?. (Null Propagation) operator.Resharper Platform InstallerC# 6Tried out some of the new features including Null propagation, using Static Members ,auto Property Initializers,Getter only auto properties,Exception Filters. Lots of fun :) hopefully will have time to look at a few of these more in depth.Here is a list of c#6 features:

SourceXamarinAt first the Xamarin project templates did not appear, but I updated Xamarin studio to v 3.9 (In the alpha/Beta Channel) which features Visual Studio 2015 support and the templates appeared.Looks like there is lots of fun ahead for .net!